Guerrero: CECOP on red alert after invasion by Army

During the night of 21 February, in the community of Los Huajes, the residence of Joel Blanco Sánchez, son of Julián Blanco, a leader of the opposition to the La Parota dam (which has been proposed since 2003), was forcibly searched by soldiers.  For this reason, members of the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposed to the La Parota Dam (CECOP), called for an assembly and announced a red alert due to the invasion of the Army in the area of the communal lands of Cacahuatepec (close to Acapulco).

Marco Suástegui Muñoz, spokesperson for CECOP, warned that if the Army maintained its presence in the area, CECOP would reactivate the five checkpoints it had installed at the beginning of its movement.  he stressed that the federal government had budgeted 500 million pesos for the reactivation of the La Parota dam, declaring that it is not an accident that there be abuses carried out by soldiers int he area, given that there is a clear interest to follow through with the dam project.

Suástegui Muñoz reported that on 7 February, CECOP called on governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero to observe the Cacahuatepec Accords, signed in August 2012, and he promised that campesinos will continue struggling until the dam project be cancelled indefinitely.

For more information (in Spanish):

Opositores a La Parota, en alerta por incursión militar (La Jornada, 25 de febrero de 2013)

Se declara Cecop en alerta roja por la irrupción de militares en Los Huajes (La Jornada de Guerrero, 25 de febrero de 2013)

Denuncia integrante del Cecop que soldados irrumpieron en su casa (El Sur de Acapulco, 22 de febrero de 2013)

For more information from SIPAZ (in English):

Guerrero: Governor Aguirre Rivero will not support construction of La Parota (27 August 2012)

Guerrero: Federal tribunal confirms end to La Parota dam project (20 July 2012)

Guerrero: CECOP will initiate a series of mobilizations demanding the definitive cancellation of the La Parota dam (3 April 2012)

Guerrero: denunciations and declarations of the CRAC and CECOP (12 March 2012)

Guerrero briefs: Two ecologist are kidnapped by armed men in the Sierra de Petatlán (14 December 2011)

Guerrero: CFE contemplates acceleration of La Parota project (27 November 2011)

National: Preaudience “Dams, rights of the people, and impunity” of the People’s Permanent Tribunal in Temacapulín, Jalisco

TPP in Temacapulín (MAPDER)

On 5 and 6 November, a preaudience of the People’s Permanent Tribunal (TPP) entitled “Dams, rights of the people, and impunity” was held in Temacapulín, Cañadas de Obregón municipality, Jalisco. After receiving testimony and evidence from communities affected by the construction of 12 dams in seven states (for example, Paso de la Reina in Oaxaca; La Parota, in Guerrero; Las Cruces, in Nayarit; El Naranjal, in Veracruz; and Arcediano, in Jalisco), the 7 judges of the TPP, all of them national and international specialists in this area, released a sentence.  In this they affirm that the forced displacement of thousands of Mexicans by the dam-projects attacks the spirit of democracy and shows that the government has for years failed to observe international human-rights law and its own Constitution.  The judges called on the Mexican government to cancel the construction of the El Zapotillo dam in Jalisco, Paso de la Reina in Oaxaca, La Parota in Guerrero, Las Cruces in Nayarit, and El Naranjal in Veracruz; further, they demanded compensation for the communities that have lost their lands due to dam-projects that have already been completed.

For more information (in Spanish):

Presentación del dictamen preliminar del jurado de la preaudiencia “presas, derechos de los pueblos e impunidad”(Boletín de prensa, TPP, 12 de noviembre de 2012)

Proyectos hidráulicos violan la Constitución: TPP (La Jornada, 9 de noviembre de 2012)

Alertan violaciones por obras de presas (El Universal, 9 de noviembre de 2012)

Más de 185 mil desplazados por la construcción de presas en México (La Jornada, 8 de noviembre de 2012)

Recomiendan cancelar presas e indemnizar a desplazados (Proceso, 8 de noviembre de 2012)

Denuncian ante TPP: presas desplazan a 185 mil personas (El Universal, 6 de noviembre de 2012)

For more information from SIPAZ (in English):

Chiapas: the International Day against Dams is celebrated (24 March 2012)

Oaxaca: Testimony of COPUDEVER shared in Costa Rica (7 October 2011)

VI Mesoamerican Forum of the Latin America Network against dams in Pacuaré, Costa Rica, 27 September 2011

Oaxaca: COPUDEVER mobilizes in defense of the Río Verde (20 March 2011)

Chiapas: National Meeting of the Mexican Movement of those Affected by Dams in Defense of Rivers (20 March 2011)

Guerrero: Governor Aguirre Rivero will not support construction of La Parota

On 16 August 2012 in the city of Acapulco, there was held the official signing of the Cacahuatepec Accords between members of the Council of Communities Opposed to the La Parota Dam (CECOP) and governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero.  This agreement stipulates that the government will not support or promote the construction of the hydroelectric dam “La Parota,” which the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has desired to construct.  This document signals that the government would have to tell President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa of the decision of the campesinos and owners of the land, who reject the sale of territory for the construction of the dam.  By signing the document, the governor also commits himself not to use public force against CECOP, instead choosing peace, justice, and respect for the right of campesinos.  The act of signing the Accords was witnessed by archbishop Carlos Garfias Merlos, who acted as a mediator between CECOP and the Aguirre administration.  Marco Antonio Suástegui, spokesperson for CECOP, said that this represents a historical event, given that after 10 years of struggle, no governor had agreed to sign on to such an agreement.

For more information (in Spanish):

Cancelan proyecto hidroeléctrico ‘La Parota’ (W Radio, 17 de agosto de 2012)

Firma Aguirre Acuerdos de Cacahuatepec con los opositores a la presa La Parota (El Sur Acapulco, 17 de agosto de 2012)

Cancelan proyecto hidrológico La Parota en Acapulco (Milenio, 16 de agosto)

Acuerdan apoyo contra La Parota (El Universal, 17 de agosto)

For more information from SIPAZ (in English):

Guerrero: Federal tribunal confirms end to La Parota dam project (20 July 2012)

Guerrero: CECOP will initiate a series of mobilizations demanding the definitive cancellation of the La Parota dam (3 April 2012)

Guerrero: denunciations and declarations of the CRAC and CECOP (12 March 2012)

Guerrero briefs: Two ecologist are kidnapped by armed men in the Sierra de Petatlán (14 December 2011)

Guerrero: CFE contemplates acceleration of La Parota project (27 November 2011)

Guerrero: Tlachinollan lawyer returns to the country

Photo @Tlachinollan

Vidulfo Rosales Sierra, the lawyer for the Tlachinollan Mountain Center for Human Rights who went into exile from the country for some months following his being threatened for his work as a human-rights defender, has returned to Mexico to reintegrate himself into his work tasks, starting on 9 August.  The human-rights defender was in Casas Guerrero to meet with the Governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero; accompanying him were many members of different social organizations, who demanded that the state executive provide protection and guarantees to the lawyer, and above all that the origin of the threats which led him to leave the country be investigated.  Aguirre Rivero spoke of granting Rosales guarantees and protection, but he did not specify of what kind or starting when.  In May the lawyer had to leave the country for the death-threats he had received.

Among the organizations that accompanied Vidulfo Rosales in the meeting was the Regional Coordination of Communal Authorities (CRAC), the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposed to the La Parota Dam (CECOP), the Workshop for Communal Development (TADECO), and the State Commission on Human Rights (CODDEHUM).  Marco Suástegui Muñoz, spokesperson for CECOP, told the governor that if he did not provide guarantees and protection to Rosales Sierra and those behind the death-threats succeed in getting to Rosales, the only responsible party would be his government: “I want to tell you Ángel that Vidulfo is not alone, and he is not a criminal.  He has no reason to need to leave the country once again…  It is your government which must guarantee the integrity of Vidulfo, and if it is not your government, we, the opponents to the La Parota project, the vandals of Ayotzinapa, as they have been called, Inés and valentina, brave women–we will defend him.”

For more information (in Spanish):

Carta de la sociedad civil al gobernador Aguirre Rivero (9 de agosto de 2012)

Tras su exilio, regresa al estado el abogado de Tlachinollan (La Jornada de Guerrero, 10 de agosto de 2012)

Abandona exilio Vidulfo Rosales, confirma Tlachinollan (Novedades Acapulco, 8 de agosto de 2012)

Tlachinollan: Tlachinollan anuncia regreso del defensor Vidulfo Rosales a Guerrero (Peace Brigades International, 10 de agosto de 2012)

Activista pone fin a su exilio y regresa a Guerrero (Proceso, 9 de agosto de 2012)

For more information from SIPAZ (in English):

Guerrero: 18th anniversary of the Tlachinollan Mountain Center for Human Rights (20 June 2012)

Guerrero: Tlachinollan lawyer receives death threats (5 June 012)

Guerrero: CNDH confirms serious rights-violations against students of Ayotzinapa (16 January 2012)

Guerrero: Extrajudicial execution of students from the Rural Normal of Ayotzinapa (21 December 2011)

Guerrero: Federal tribunal confirms end to La Parota dam project

July 2010, photo @SIPAZ

The Second Tribunal on Penal and Administrative Matters from the First Circuit has confirmed the definitive cancellation of the hydroelectric dam project La Parota in its denial of a motion advanced by a minority group of communards against the resolution released by the Agrarian Unitary Tribunal (TUA) no. 41, with headquarters in Acapulco, which previously had nullified the decision of the assembly.

It should be remembered that on 18 April 2011, the TUA no. 41, evaluating the Agrarian Case 360/2010, declared null and void the assembly carried out in Cacahuatepec on 28 April 2010, given that this event was affected by serious irregularities.  On 6 June 2011, a group of people promoted a demand for a motion against this resolution.  Regardless, having analyzed the case, the Federal Tribunal confirmed the nullification of the assembly of 28 April 2010.

According to the Tlachinollan Mountain Center for Human Rights, “the decision of the Collegiate Tribunal confirms once again that the legal struggle undertaken by the opponents to the project–the communards, ejidatarios, and neighbors untied in the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposed to the La Parota Dam (CECOP)–have a legal basis and social legitimacy.  It is to be hoped, for this reason, that the recent ruling will induce the signing of the Cacahuatepec Accords, which to date have been avoided by the state Executive, the same body that could return peace to the region.”

Marco Antonio Suástegui Muñoz, spokesperson for CECOP, declared in a press-conference that with this victory gained from the courts, “the CECOP together with Tlachinollan has defeated the CFE and the federal government, because on 12 August 2007 more than 7,000 communards rejected La Parota, given that it is not viable socially or juridically.  The dam project is in decline, and this is important because it supports the decisions taken by the owners of the land.”

For more information (in Spanish):

Tribunal Federal ratifica Punto Final a la presa La Parota (Megafono Lunasexta, 12 de julio)

Anula tribunal la asamblea que aprobó La Parota, dice el Cecop (La Jornada de Guerrero, 13 de julio)

Ratifica Tribunal Federal fin al proyecto de la presa La Parota (WRadio, 12 de julio)

For more information from SIPAZ (in English):

Guerrero: CECOP will initiate a series of mobilizations demanding the definitive cancellation of the La Parota dam (3 April 2012)

Guerrero: denunciations and declarations of the CRAC and CECOP (12 March 2012)

Guerrero briefs: Two ecologist are kidnapped by armed men in the Sierra de Petatlán (14 December 2011)

Guerrero: CFE contemplates acceleration of La Parota project (27 November 2011)

Guerrero: CECOP will initiate a series of mobilizations demanding the definitive cancellation of the La Parota dam

Photo: SIPAZ

Members of the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposed to the La Parota Dam (CECOP) responded to the official silence on the part of the governor of Guerrero, warning that La Parota would not proceed, “be it with or without the signature of the governor.”  In their communiqué released on 19 March, they revealed that they will undertake a series of mobilizations to demand the total rejection of the dam.

On 7 May of last year, Governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero visited the bastion of the movement that opposes the dam.  He rejected at that time the suggestion that he sign the Cacahuatepec Accords which request the total cancellation of the federal project.  His signature was to be had on 11 March of this year in Aguacaliente–a meeting which the governor failed to attend.

“CECOP’s invitation to the governor to demand the Cacahuatepec Accords was met with silence,” noted the opponents in their communiqué.  CECOP views this rejection by the administration as a “challenge and a lack of respect” for the movement, as well as a lack of political vision, because “no dam or mine constitutes development for the state or the country.  Besides, they are financed with foreign capital that seeks profits, as would be the case with the La Parota dam and the Canadian mining projects.”  They warn that if the governor does not want to defend the land of Guerrero, CECOP will do so by means of mobilizations.

CECOP announced its plan of struggle against La Parota, which includes a march on 23 March that will be attended by Communal Action for Peace and Unity, as proposed by the Catholic Church.  Similarly, there will be held a mass-march in May to demand the cancellation of the project.

For more information (in Spanish):

Con la firma o sin la firma del gobernador, La Parota no se hará (Comunicado de CECOP difundido por CENCOS, 19 de marzo 2012)

Con firma del gobernador o sin ella, La Parota no pasará, decide el Cecop (La Jornada Guerrero, 21 de marzo 2012)

For more information from SIPAZ (in English):

Guerrero: denunciations and declarations of the CRAC and CECOP (12 March 2012)

Guerrero briefs: Two ecologist are kidnapped by armed men in the Sierra de Petatlán (14 December 2011)

Guerrero: CFE contemplates acceleration of La Parota project (27 November 2011)

Guerrero – briefs: CECOP celebrates its 8th anniversary (18 August 2011)

Guerrero – briefs: Mining exploration continues in the Montaña region without permission from communities; reinstallation of the blockade against La Parota January 13, 2011

Guerrero: State accepts responbiility in Radilla case in absence of relatives; CFE contemplates acceleration of La Parota project; invitation to anniversary of Radio Ñomndaa

Tita Radilla and members of AFADEM (@SIPAZ)

On 17 November, Juan Marcos Gutiérrez, Secretary of Governance for functions, and chancellor Patricia Espinoza led a public act in Atoyác de Álvarez that recognized the responsibility of Mexican State in the forced disappearance of Rosendo Radilla Pacheco, which occurred in 1974, in observation of the sentence dictated by the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR), an act from which were absent his relatives who for 37 years have sought justice.  ”Due to the pressured and unilateral manners in which the Secretary of Governance has communicated with representatives of the Radilla family–the Mexican Commission for Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH)–to report that the public apology would be carried out the following day, the Radilla family, its representatives, and the Association of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Mexico (AFADEM) decided not to attend the event,” noted Julio Mata Motielo, technical secretary of Afadem, on 16 November.  During the act, governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero took the opportunity to announce the creation of a Truth Commission that is to investigate the human-rights violations committed in the state during the decades of the ’70s and ’80s.

In other news, news has been released noting that in light of the growth of demand for energy in the state of Guerrero, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is considering accelerating the construction of the hydroelectric dam La Parota, aiming for it to become operational in October of 2016.  The present administration of Ángel Aguirre has sought better relations with the communards, but his position is that the project will be carried out.  The main reason for its approval is that beyond supplying energy to the whole state, the dam would also guarantee drinking water for Acapulco.  The communards opposing the project, associated with the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposed to La Parota (CECOP), are not convinced about the supposed benefits of the dam, and they have already succeeded in maintaining the project in suspension for the last 8 years.

Lastly, members of the autonomous Ñomndaa radio, from the community of Suljaa’, municipality of Xochistlahuaca, invite civil society to participate in the celebration of its anniversary.  The event will take place in said community from 17-19 December of this year.  The objective is to “strengthen our resolve in the struggle so as to engage in dialogue and live together in resistance and rebellion with joy.”

For more information (in Spanish):

Estado mexicano pierde oportunidad histórica de reconocer a las víctimas de la “guerra sucia”  (Cencos, 17 November)

Una imposición, acto oficial de disculpa pública por caso Radilla: Afadem(Proceso, 16 November)

Reconoce el Estado mexicano su responsabilidad en el caso Radilla (La Jornada, 18 November)

Rachazan perdón en el caso de Radilla (El Universal, 17 November)

Estado acepta culpa en el caso de Radilla (El Universal, 18 November)

Comuneros, en contra de la obra en la región (El Universal, 17 November)

La Parota, el futuro eléctrico para Guerrero (El Universal, 17 November)

Invitación aniversario Radio Ñomndaa

http://lapalabradelagua.org/

For more information from SIPAZ (in English):

Guerrero – briefs – Tierra Caliente is second-highest national location in number of feminicides; SCJN will analyze recommendations of the Inter-American Court in the case of Radilla (14 September 2010)

Guerrero – briefs: CECOP celebrates its 8th anniversary (18 August 2011)

Guerrero – briefs: Mining exploration continues in the Montaña region without permission from communities; reinstallation of the blockade against La Parota January 13, 2011

Briefs Guerrero: Challenge to OSC regarding Operation “Secure Guerrero”; CECOP requests that Congress deny funding for La Parota

Militarization in Guerrero (@Tlachinollan)

On 6 October, the federal government and Guerrero state-government announced the launching of the Coordinated Operation “Secure Guerrero,” in an intention to respond to the grave security crisis lived in the state.  In accordance with the little information to date made public, the new joint operation implies the deployment of 2000 soldiers in the state, including one thousand from the Army, 300 from the Navy, 650 from the Federal Police, and 50 from the Federal Attorney General’s Office (PGR), in addition to the thousand state police and 500 others who will be incorporate into service in November.

In a communiqué published on 12 October, civil-society organizations, including the Tlachinollan Mountain Center for Human Rights and the Guerrero Network of Civil Organizations for Human Rights, affirmed that the “the annunciation of the new ‘Secure Guerrero’ Operation is nothing new; on the contrary, it seeks to repeat a strategy that has shown itself to be inefficient in reducing levels of violence; it moreover would increase the risks that there occur new human-rights violations.  Similar programs have been seen to be problematic in Guerrero itself [2007], as in other states like Chihuahua.”

They denounced as well that “the annunciation of a new joint operation makes clear that the federal governmetn and state government revert to actions that have shown themselves to be inefficacious in that they do not seek to respond to the problems at root nor even succeed in reducing levels of violence but rather generate conditions in which the people’s human rights are violated, renouncing approaches that would design and institute wholesome policies that have to do with the logic of citizens’ security: that is to say, that make central the guarantee of the rights of all persons above the protection of institutions and to the margin of prevailing warlike conceptions.  In this sense this orientation persists, as in the recently announced operation, which will only increase our alert for the predictable increase in violence and the anticipated increase in rights-violations.”

In other news, on 13 October, the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposed to the La Parota Dam (CECOP) requested that federal representatives reject the demanded budget for the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) to construct the La Parota dam in Acapulco.  The organization reiterated its proposal that the resources of this year that would be destined to La Parota instead be utilized to construct a bridge that would unite 47 communities, a bilingual university, and a regional hospital.

For more information (in Spanish):

Motiva dudas el operativo en Guerrero (La Jornada, 13 October)

Operación “Guerrero Seguro” repite estrategia ineficaz y amenaza los derechos humanos (OSC, 12 October)

Piden negar a la CFE fondos para La Parota (La Jornada, 12 October)

Comunicado del Consejo de Ejidos y Comunidades Opositores a la presa la Parota (CECOP, 11 October)

For more information from SIPAZ (in English):

Guerrero – briefs: CECOP celebrates its 8th anniversary (18 August 2011)

Guerrero – briefs: Mining exploration continues in the Montaña region without permission from communities; reinstallation of the blockade against La Parota January 13, 2011

VI Mesoamerican Forum of the Latin American Network against Dams in Pacuaré, Costa Rica

From 22 to 25 September, those affected by dams, river pollution, and other Mesoamerican megaprojects will meet in the communities of the Pacuaré River in Costa Rica to celebrate the VI Forum of the Latin American Network against Dams and for Rivers, their Communities, and Water (REDLAR).  A 19 September press-bulletin from the Mexican Movement of the Affected by Dams and in Defense of Rivers (MAPDER) mentions that “the Mesoamerican Forum is a meeting to exchange experiences, information, solidarity, caring, and hope among peoples separated by borders bu united by ideals, struggle, and the defense and promotion of our rights.”  To arrive at the meeting there left a caravan from the city of Tapachula in Chiapas on 19 September, which is to pass through El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, with the goal of promoting interchange of experiences among communities in resistance.  The bulletin continues: “Representing the Mexican delegation, we participate in struggle and organizations that oppose the contruction of the following dams in the country: Paso de la Reina in Oaxaca, La Parota in Guerrero, El Zapotillo and La Yesca in Jalisco, Las Cruces in Nayarit, Itzantún and Chinín in Chiapas, Pantanos de Zentla and those affected by flooding in Tabasco, in addition to more than 112 dam projectsin the state of Veracruz.”

For more information (in Spanish):

boletín de prensa (MAPDER, 19 September)

Afectadas y afectados por la construcción de presas recorren Centroamérica para reunirse en el VI Foro Mesoamericano de la Red Latinoamericana contra de las Represas REDLAR en Pacuare, Costa Rica. (Paso de la Reina, 19 September)

Mesoamérica se reúne en Pacuare: VI Encuentro en Defensa de los Ríos y las Comunidades (MAPDER; 14 September)

For more information from SIPAZ (in English):

Oaxaca: COPUDEVER mobilizes in defense of the Río Verde (20 March 2011)

Chiapas: National Meeting of the Mexican Movement of those Affected by Dams in Defense of Rivers (20 March 2011)

Oaxaca: Assembly cancels the authorization given to the CFE in project “Paso de la Reina” (31 July 2009)

Guerrero – briefs: Human-rights centers meet with Governor Aguirre; IACHR requests protection for Torres family in the Sierra de Petatlán; CECOP celebrates its 8th anniversary

Eighth anniversary of the CECOP.  @Jóvenes en Resistencia Alternativa

On 2 August, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (CRFK) and the Tlachinollan Mountain Center for Human Rights reported that they had had a meeting with Ángel Aguirreo Rivero, governor of the state, and Alberto López Rosas, State Attorney General, as well as several other state functionaries.  The meeting had the objective of discussing the observance of the provisional measures granted to members of the Organization of Me’phaa Indigenous Peoples (OPIM), the Organization for the Future of the Mixteco People (OFPM), and Tlachinollan.  The question of the implementation of the sentences handed down by the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR) in the cases of Inés Fernández and Valentina Rosendo against the Mexican State was also raised.  At the end of the meeting, Aguirre committed himself to observing the sentences of the IACHR in both cases and assured that the state government is committed to reiterating its recommendation that the investigations be transferred to the appropriate federal institution.  Furthermore, the government committed itself to soon reinstalling the public-security units for the protection of the offices of Tlachinollan in Ayutla de Los Libres.

In other news, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) requested that the State authorities urgently grant protective measures to the relatives of Javier Torres Cruz, a campesino who was murdered on 18 April in the community of La Morena, Petatlán.  The measures that the IACHR is demanding for the Torres family are due to the incursion on 21 July by armed men dressed as Marines and civilians into the community of La Morena which developed into a confrontation with state police who were guarding the area.  The harassment against Javier Torres and his family began starting in 2007 when police were told that evidence had been found regarding the presumed murderer of the lawyer Digna Ochoa.

Finally, on 28 July in the community of Aguacaliente, a rural part of Acapulco, the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposed to La Parota (CECOP) commemorated the eighth anniversary of its struggle against the construction of the La Parorta dam.  Felipe Flores, spokesperson for CECOP, stressed that those who formerly had been in favor of the dam “now are on our side; that gives us much strength.  Today we celebrate eight years of struggle.  To live it is difficult because it implies much exertion.”  He also mentioned that “now the members of CECOP have a responsibily and a commitment, because other organizations have approached us to ask us how we have kept up the fight.”

For more information (in Spanish):

Comunicado CRFK y Tlachinollan (2 August)

Pide la CIDH medidas cautelares para familiares de Javier Torres (La Jornada, 4 August)

Pide la Comisión Interamericana protección para la familia Torres de la sierra de Petatlán (El Sur de Acapulco, 4 August)

Celebra el Cecop octavo aniversario (La Jornada, 29 July)

Fotos del aniversario del CECOP (Jóvenes en resistencia alternativa, 3 August)

For more information from SIPAZ (in English):

Guerrero – briefs: Judge acquits attacker of Radio Ñomndaa Committee member; Interior Ministry evades compliance with sentencing in the case of Inés and Valentina (February 4, 2011)

Guerrero: “Indigenous peoples are subject to rights and are not electoral merchandise” (February 4, 2011)

Guerrero – briefs: Mining exploration continues in the Montaña region without permission from communities; reinstallation of the blockade against La Parota (January 13, 2011)

Guerrero: Lucio Cabañas’ widow and her sister are murdered (17 July)

Guerrero: The ecologist campesino Javier Torres Cruz is murdered (6 May 2011)

Guerrero – briefs:  Concern for the safety of the inhabitants of La Morena (28 December 2010)

Guerrero: Torres reappears with signs of torture (29 December 2008)